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A new maternal blood test that can detect thousands of serious genetic conditions in the developing foetus could limit the need for invasive screening during pregnancy,…

Piers had been in China for all of two days in 2009 when he was used as a “white monkey” for the first time. He had…

“Game-changer.” That’s how Prof Misty Jenkins, an immunologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, describes CAR T-cell therapy, an emerging but still…

Reduce your calories. Eat more vegetables. Limit soft drinks and junk foods. For years, even decades, this has been the advice for those wanting a healthy…

Oxford scientists have developed a simple AI tool that can predict the risk of heart failure five years before it develops.More than 60 million people worldwide…

Scientists have discovered how genetics may help explain why weight-loss jabs work better for some people than others.Variations in two genes involved in gut hormone pathways,…

Sex might seem an intimate act, but scientists have shed fresh light on how octopuses manage it at arm’s length.Male octopuses use a specialised arm called…

March 19, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmSomething extremely weird is happening to our galactic neighbor. Scientists think they know whyThe stars in the…

Pythons follow the ultimate crash diet, swallowing an antelope in a single sitting and then going for months without eating. Now scientists have identified a molecule…

Scientists at the Cern nuclear physics laboratory near Geneva have discovered a heavier version of the proton, the subatomic particle that sits at the heart of…